Word: newfoundlands
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...realm of the wicked, built not only upon layers of deceitful whispers and abuse of religious power, but also upon the sadistic sexual molestation of these small boys. Smith's film cloaks itself in the robes of fiction, but draws upon real cases of pederasty in the priesthood of Newfoundland and Canada during the 1970's. Without degenerating into lurid sensationalism, the twopart film details the reality of this painful nightmare, as well as the brutal psychological effects both on the innocent souls of the boys and the souls of the guilty priests...
...whiskey does not seem to dull her mind, her ability to utter home truths or her prowess in bed. It just loosens her trigger finger. She lives, just after the turn of the century, not in the Wild West but in the remote hamlet of Witless Bay, Newfoundland (one store, one restaurant, a sawmill and a drydock). Her lover is Fabian Vas, the narrator, who could easily have been the subject of a stultifying art novel. From age 8 he has spent most of his time in inlets and marshes sketching birds, turning his impressions into meticulous paintings that...
Because most of the new fields are in inhospitable regions, exploitation costs are huge. In Canada a consortium led by Mobil is investing $4 billion to build and install the world's heaviest -- and costliest -- drilling platform 200 miles southeast of the coast of Newfoundland. The 1.1 million-ton rig, designed to withstand collisions with the giant icebergs that regularly drift through the area, will begin tapping the North Atlantic's 2 billion-bbl. Hibernia field...
When Eric Nurse, 52, first went to sea with the fishing fleet from the port of Champneys East in Newfoundland, the cod seemed plentiful enough to last forever. Like his father and grandfather before him, Nurse returned year after year to the frigid, treacherous North Atlantic to harvest the rich waters of the Grand Banks, one of the world's most productive fishing areas...
...photo," who possesses "a great damp loaf of a body." His faithless wife is "thin, moist, hot . . . in another time, another sex, she would have been a Genghis Khan." After they marry, her "desire reversed to detestation like a rubber glove turned inside out." But as Quoyle heads to Newfoundland and fumbles through life as a newspaperman, the author eases up and allows an occasional smile...